Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion

Professor Risteárd Ó Laoide:

Regarding the symptomatic services, obviously capacity was significantly strained because of Covid and the cyberattack. In the symptomatic services all patients who are referred are triaged, and that is critical. The triage is done in the best way possible to ensure that urgent patients go and get a triple assessment. Of the patients who are referred to the breast clinic, approximately half are triaged as urgent and have that triple assessment done. Our percentage-----

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